A Little More Lite Blogging ...

Once more, the workload intervenes with the blogging. So I'm behind on a few must-reads from the weekend. So what better reason than to add to the list of things I wish I had more time to blog about. With a little luck, tonight might be a good excuse for catching up while watching the PA returns.

» DMN: Does Perry get it? (William McKenzie)
McKenzie offers a brief and simplistic way of understanding the historic changes in Texas leadership. But he at least glances a narrative that I don't think many others have touched on yet.

» Chron: Guiding growth will be a key issue in '09 mayoral tilt (Mike Snyder)
I'll probably reserve a ton of comment on this for now. But it does feel incredibly unusual to have a sense that there's not one single mayoral candidate that I'm really optimistic about for 2009.

» Jeff Balke: Houston's "New" Rock Alternative?
Jeff reminds me why I don't listen to radio anymore. And about the only show I would have a need to listen to for anything, I can listen to online. Otherwise, podcasts and K-Greg get me through just fine. Yeah, the music's not terribly new ... but it still rocks.

» National Journal: New Media as the Message (Alexis Simendinger)
I think this is even slightly more poignant than Brownstein's article. A few of the highlights are Kathleen Hall Jamieson's point that a tech-centric approach doesn't necessarily benefit any candidate, you have to have an audience that it's relevant for. Secondly, that use of the tools for governance is quite separate than their use for campaigning. At least for now, I guess. I suspect we'll see them used more as tools for governance in the future. It's just a matter of something coming along that's effective for that.